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† modeˈratrix Obs.
Also 6 moderatrice.
[a. L. moderātrix, F. modératrice: see moderator.]
A female moderator.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. ix, Temperance..is the moderatrice as well of all motions of the minde, called affectes, as of all actis procedyng of man. 1577Timme Calvin on 1 Cor. 64 b (margin), Loue the moderatrix of contention. a1614Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 120 He loved equity, as the true umpress between them both, as moderatrix of extremes. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 63 Your Church hath..practised it a long time, for a woman to be head or supreme moderatrix in the Church. 1673Ess. Educ. Gentlewom. 13 She is ordinarily a Moderatrix in the Academy at the Disputation amongst learned Wits. 1741Middleton Cicero II. x. 386 He had given up all his resentments to the Republic; made her the Moderatrix of all his acts. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. lv. 356 The debate was closed, and referred to Mrs. Shirley, as Moderatrix. |